Hazelton, Idaho.
Typical home $402,006 (+6.8% in a year). Twin Falls, ID metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,260 (+148%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $25,435 +7%
- $376,571$402,006 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $88,998 +28%
- $313,008$402,006 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Hazelton$2,110
- Idaho$2,502
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 14 years.
Typical home values in Hazelton, ID rose 6.8% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Hazelton, Jerome County, Idaho
Hazelton is a city of 803 people in Jerome County. Unemployment in Jerome County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 1.3% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Jerome County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Hazelton is a small city in Jerome County, Idaho, with a population small enough that most people likely know one another by sight. Winters are cold, with the coldest weather in January, and summers turn hot by July. The year is quite dry, with little rain and melted snow compared with much of the country. Typical home values are well above what the county's incomes would suggest, and a four-year degree is uncommon among adults here.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, in manufacturing, on farms and in shops. Across Jerome County, some of the largest workplaces are True West Beef, Agropur and the Jerome Joint District schools. Unemployment across the county is low and has barely changed from a year earlier, and the county has added a few more jobs. Most people travel a moderate distance to work, and only a small number work from home.
Things to do. Caldron Linn, a waterfall, and Minidoka National Historic Site, a protected area, are both a short drive away. A longer drive leads to Shoshone Falls, one of the best known waterfalls in the region. These make for easy day trips from town.
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- 6%of adults have a degree
- 14%below the poverty line
- 23 mintypical commute
- 8%work from home
What people in Jerome County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Jerome County had 12,328 jobs in 2025, 1.3% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 36° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 56°. About 11 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hazelton weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Jerome County
- True West BeefAnimal slaughtering and processing545
- AgropurCheese, natural, manufacturing470
- Jerome Joint DistrictSchool district438FTE
- Spears ManufacturingPvc pipe manufacturing320
- Watkins DistributingBeverages, alcoholic, merchant wholesalers318
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters249
- Double A DairyDairy226
- Rite Stuff FoodsFruit juice concentrates, frozen, manufacturing208
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 38 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,442 people in all across the county; Hazelton has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Winter weatherVery high
- WildfireRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Hazelton’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Jerome County and the Twin Falls, ID metro.
Hazelton home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Hazelton$402,006
- Idaho$476,754
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Zip codes with a Hazelton address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Hazelton — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.